Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 25
I crope up nigh de do', an' hollered an' axed 'im how he wuz a gittin' on, an' den he broke, an' ez he broke I jammed de gun in de small er his back and banged aloose.
Who acts: I, im, riz, ez · What happens: crope up, ',, holler, ax, wuz, break · To what, where: an, gittin, den, ez, de gun, de small er · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, im, riz, ez), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 crope | nsubj |
| 2 | crope | crope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ', | advcl |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 crope | compound:prt |
| 4 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 2 crope | advmod |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 crope | flat |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ', | aux |
| 7 | ', | ', | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ', | obj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 hollered | punct |
| 10 | hollered | holler | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 an | conj |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 axed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 axed | punct |
| 13 | axed | ax | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hollered | ccomp |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 axed | punct |
| 15 | im | im | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 wuz | nsubj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 wuz | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wuz | nsubj |
| 18 | wuz | wuz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 axed | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 gittin | det |
| 20 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wuz | obj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 gittin | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 wuz | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 den | punct |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 den | det |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 den | punct |
| 26 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wuz | conj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 broke | nsubj |
| 28 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 den | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 jammed | punct |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 ez | det |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 ez | punct |
| 32 | ez | ez | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 jammed | nsubj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 broke | nsubj |
| 34 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 ez | acl:relcl |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 jammed | nsubj |
| 36 | jammed | jam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wuz | parataxis |
| 37 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 gun | amod |
| 38 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 jammed | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 er | case |
| 40 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 er | amod |
| 41 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 er | amod |
| 42 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 jammed | obl |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 back | nmod:poss |
| 44 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 er | nmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 banged | cc |
| 46 | banged | bang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 jammed | conj |
| 47 | aloose | aloose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 banged | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ', | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crope up | present | I | nigh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ', | present · do-support | an | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | holler speech: other | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | ax | participle · passive | an | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wuz | present | im | a gittin | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | break | past | riz | a den not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer den=Patient | ||||
| 7 | break | past | riz | a ez not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ez=Patient | ||||
| 8 | jam | past | a ez | de gun | de small er riz's back | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gun=Theme in er=Destination | |||
| 9 | bang | past | a ez not said here | aloose | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aloose=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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